Elephants are fascinating animals, and their trunks are even more impressive once you realize everything they can do. This long, flexible combination of nose and upper lip has over 40,000 muscles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zaiya is all of us if we suddenly woke up with a trunk in the middle of our faces. The baby elephant is so curious about hers!

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She’s just ...

Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and breathe. If you take a close look at the iconic appendage—an elongated nose and upper lip—you’ll see ...

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it. KUOW is ...

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Zaiya is all of us if we suddenly woke up with a trunk in the middle of our faces. The baby elephant is so curious about hers! Video taken at the Blackpool Zoo in Lancashire, England shows the baby ...

An elephant has about 1,000 whiskers on its trunk. Basile Morin via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-4.0 Elephants are famous for their dexterous trunks, which the animals use to eat, drink, trumpet and ...

Many human inventions are based on things found in nature. Velcro was inspired by the burrs a Swiss engineer found on himself and his dog, airplane wings by birds in flight. A new study of elephant ...